The Injury Report: Recent Episodes
Joe Brenner
Injuries are a part of sports. This podcast will give you updates on high profile injuries your favorite athletes sustain, explain exactly what goes wrong, and help you find out why a tweaked back keeps you on the couch for weeks while they can play a game days later.
Championship Week! Who are you starting in the pivotal week? Whether you're trying to avoid the league punishment or take top prize, listen here for actives and IRs.
The Jags are in control of their own destiny! Jalen Hurts injury more serious than anticipated, Ravens and Titans continue to fall apart, Anthony Davis to again miss a significant amount of time.
Ryan goes all NFL for his picks after another winning week, we discuss the Heisman, the transfer portal and injuries in the NFL.
Happy Thanksgiving! A small world cup injury report after we talk with my friend Eric Wheeler about "The Game" taking place in Columbus, OH at noon. Our usual NFL preview and how soccer can be made more fun for viewers.
Just me between exams. NFL, CFB, and a few NBA injuries. Highlighting this week is Minkah Fitzpatrick who is now appendixless.
Packed episode with not one but 2 guests on the pod this week. Andrew Fausey (Foxy) comes on to talk the CFB playoff rankings. He and his friends have their own Fantasy College Football League that is explained. Ryan comes off a 2-4 week where he chose all of the game correcly if they were moneyline. NYG TE Dan Bellinger has an eye injury that is new to our show and there was quite a scary injury in hockey we talk about.
This week Ryan returns as we talk college and pro football as well as a little bit of NBA and the world series.
This is a solo mision and it allowed me a lot of time to rant about concussions, the Jags, the Heat, and CJ Stroud. There are some interesting new injuries as well, including a triceps tear.
MLB and MLS playoffs; NHL and NBA seasons kick-off; NFL and CFB seasons continue all today: October 20th. Ryan joins to discus his picks as well as the Redeem Team documentary. I ask whether or not Shane Bieber should have started against the Yankees. NBA preview and NFL injuries. 1
Full MLB Playoff preview! Football is great! KC vs BUF this week. ALA vs TEN on Saturday. DAL vs PHI Sunday night! All of this going on while one team has their 4th string QB starting this week. (Ryan is back up to .500).
TUA! Learn. neuroscience as we discus why Tua's arms reacted the way they did to his second head injury in a week. We also talk about other teams missing a quarterback or two, namely the Giants and Patriots. All of week 5 is previewed after Ryan comes back to defend a tough week against Vegas.
Today, I go through every NFL game and birng up big name injuries if there are any. In particular, the Browns are depleted on defense. Ryan Alexander joins us as he begins his professional gambling career with three college games and three pro games for you to make money.
Three weeks of football jammed into one episode. College QBs Tyler Buchner and Quinn Ewers. Pro QBs Trey Lance, Dak Prescott, and Justin Herbert. Chris Godwin, TJ Watt, and the Ravens' corners.
In today's episode we rediscuss the dreaded LisFranc injury. I called Matt Corale Zach Wilson for most of the episode, but Chet Holmgren just had the same injury. Tyrod Taylor also has very bad injury luck (ribs).
Logan Bruss, Zach Wilson, Aaron Stinnie, Ryan Jensen, Tristain Wirfs, Tyquan Thorton, Mecole Hardman, Kenneth Walker, Matt Corale, Jaquan Brisker. It was a tough week for rookies and the Buccaneer's offensive line. Stafford, Wilson, and Burrow are also revisited.
NFL is back! QBs and Lineman are the stars today with Zach Wilson leading our list of high profile and high impact injuries. Notre Dame receiver Avery Davis' career could also have come to an unfortunate end.
Paigey "Buckets" Bueckers tears an ACL, when will she return? Matt Stafford has elbow issues, how will this affect his season?
Mike Trout, Khris Middleton, Joe Burrow. Three superstars on teams that need them are dealing with strange injuries. Listen in to find out what happened and when you can expect to see them back in competition.
John Metchie announced today that he will be out for the season with leukemia. Listen to understand what kind and what it means. James White almost dislocated his hip but surgeons finished the job for him. Albert Pujols, recruiting, the Drew League.
A talk on ACL reconstruction to get us through the dog days of summer. Not much of a sports week so projections for upcoming football, baseball, basketball, and even soccer (futbol).
I finally get into some big name MLB injuries. Quick recap of an individual heroic move for the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. Then finish with NBA contracts, trades, and the end of regional college football conferences.
Fernando Tatis' motorcycle injury, a dip into the rotator cuff and how to warm those muscles up, the NBA draft (featuring a Toledo Rocket), and hockey injury updates still suck.
NBA Finals are over and the Stanley Cup is underway wihtout much injury news, so we turn our attention to baseball. Before we get into the specifics, we walk through throwing mechanics and some of the common injuries you'll see in baseball. Also, my best NBA players of all-time and why you're set if you're in front of the Logo.
Both the Celtics and Warriors have nagging injuries we discuss as Game 4 and beyond will be a series of attrition. I finally have video to diagnose vague NHL reports as the Avalanche wait for the winner of the Lightning an Rangers. We mix in some WWE and of course speak of NFL news. Plus, Notre Dame gets a HUGE recruit.
After 2 months we have our first guest, my dad. After we dissect the NBA and NHL playoffs for the few remaining injuries, we ask Nostradadmus to give us his predictions for the NBA Finals and NBA off-season. He definitely listens to Colin Cowherd.
The Heat face elimination and although I am not hopeful, you should join me in my support for them because they are the only thing standing between the return of Boston sports' domination. We also dip our toes into hockey and their frustrating injury reports. Zion, COVID, and Kaepernick, too.
The Conference Finals are underway and the Boston Celtics lost two of their starters to strange injuries or illnesses in Game 1. Kyle Lowry is still dealing with his hamstring. The West is healthy other than Gary Payton II, who has an updated timetable. Tarik Cohen suffered a devastating injury while rehabbing from a torn ACL. Chris Sale spurs the conversation of rib injuries and the New York Mets pitching staff provides examples of throwing motion injuries.
It's Friday the Thirteenth but not many injuries to speak of today. I dig a little deeper into the Ja Morant injury, Double down on the GP2 injury, and tell you why we get to start our year with a Super Bowl.
NBA round 2 is underway with high profile injuries to Joel Embiid, Marcus Smart, and Gary Payton II. A recap of the draft to see where some of the injury concerns landed as well as why Nakobe Dean went from first-round lock to third-round steal. Then my reason for why the NBA playoffs are better than the NHL.
The draft is a collection of a lot of athletes with a lot of problems. Some interesting cases broken down along with an NBA week 1 wrap-up.
A complete breakdown of all 16 teams heading into the NBA playoffs. Who is hurt, who might be, and some things to look for including a tip on how to guard Steph Curry.